Experimental verification of magnetic near-field channeling using a helical-shaped wire medium lens

Abstract

We experimentally verify that a magnetic uniaxial wire medium lens consisting of a racemic array of helical-shaped metallic wires may enable channeling the normal component of the magnetic field of near-field sources with resolution well below the diffraction limit over a broad bandwidth. It is experimentally demonstrated that the helical-shaped wire medium lens can be regarded as the magnetic counterpart of the usual wire medium lenses formed by straight metallic wires. The experimental results are validated with full-wave numerical simulations. We envision that the proposed metamaterial lens may have potential applications in magnetic resonance imaging, near-field wireless power transfer, and sensing.

arXiv commentThis article was published in Applied Physics Letters

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